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I think it was 1987 - something like that - or '86, and I thought, 'When you go equity and you're gonna get paid, you'll finally be able to make a living.' But it was not to be so. I always bartended and waited tables so I ended up not doing theater for about a year because nobody would hire me.

— Denis O'Hare

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✓Similar Perspectives

Personally, the first year when I started making enough money just from acting - by that, I mean not doing anything else but acting - was around 2003.

— Yuri Lowenthal

I pulled out of making movies in about '96 or '97.

— Rick Moranis

I was 9 years old, and this was - well, whenever it was, they paid a thousand bucks. I thought I was going to be rich forever! But I had no thought I would be an actor at that point.

— Tim Daly

It wasn't until I'd turned 50 and had been in the business 25 years that I realized I might actually have a career as an actor.

— James Garner

When I was 25 years old and had no money - and didn't know how to make movies and had no experience - I was able to get $25,000 together, and that film was 'The Brothers McMullen.'

— Edward Burns

I was there when the quote-unquote golden age of musical theater was flourishing. I met everybody who worked in theater or was famous in theater from the '40s on.

— Harold Prince

When I was five I think, that's when I started wanting to be an actress.

— Marilyn Monroe

1977 is the year I made my first movie. Shortly after, I was offered quite nice roles in television. The general consensus among everyone was that I'd be out of my mind to do that.

— Mary Steenburgen

It was in 1969, and I thought, wow, you know, I really didn't want to do a TV series. You know, I had my own act, and I was performing in Vegas and doing all of these exciting things.

— Florence Henderson

✗Opposing Perspectives

Pretty much from 1979 through 1988, the backbone of my career was the theater. Working on Broadway a couple of times, working off-Broadway, and also doing a lot of regional theater. Make no mistake, I lived very frugally. I had an apartment that was real cheap. I would get two or three jobs per season, and in between I'd be on unemployment.

— Delroy Lindo